UNIT OVERVIEW

This unit occurs in spring or third quarter of the school year and serves as a means for students to recognize change in themselves, their surroundings and how they affect change.

Pre-K students need concrete learning experiences related to themselves and their environment. They will learn to sequence events and changes over time using pictures. Pre-K students will recognize and describe seasonal changes and the effects on plants by listening and responding to text dependent questions based on informational texts (refer to MSDE glossary for CCSS definition of informational text. PK students will also recognize physical changes in characters and themselves through interactive read-alouds of developmentally appropriate complex text aligned with the topic of change. Assessment occurs mostly through teacher observation and anecdotal record keeping. Teachers observe and attend to student interactions and discussions related to the topic at hand to assess proficiency with objectives. Teachers build in discovery, problem solving and cooperative activities to inhance the content.No mastery of learning will occur at this stage as this is students' first exposure to standards and strands.

STUDENT OUTCOMES

Specific outcomes are included for each lesson and lesson seeds. Global outcomes for the unit include:

Retell and/or sequence a variety of events from stories and real life experiences.

Use a combination of drawing, dictating, or developmentally appropriate writing.

ASSESSMENTS

Pre: Teacher will be able to pre-assess students through observation via whole-group; small group and or one-to-one discussions regarding the student's background knowledge, reading readiness skills and oral language skills.

Formative: Observations to include text based responses:

to interactive read-alouds

dictations

writing pieces

sequencing of pictures

retelling events

UNIT LESSON PLANS

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